雙語(yǔ)新聞：馬云入選《時(shí)代周刊》2014年度人物

雙語(yǔ)新聞：馬云入選《時(shí)代周刊》2014年度人物

近日，《時(shí)代周刊》確定了“2014年度人物”的最終候選者名單，候選人除了俄羅斯總統(tǒng)普京、長(zhǎng)腿“民謠天后”泰勒·斯威夫特，中國(guó)電商巨頭阿里巴巴創(chuàng)始人馬云也入選。以下是最后的八名候選人(排名不分先后)：

1、Jack Ma, an English teacher turned founder and CEO of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant which debuted a $25 billion IPO。

馬云：從英語(yǔ)老師再到阿里巴巴CEO的傳奇人物。今年九月，中國(guó)電商巨頭阿里巴巴在美國(guó)上市，市值達(dá)250億美元。

2、 The Ebola caregivers, who are still fighting the biggest Ebola outbreak in history, that has so far taken the lives of nearly 7,000 people in West Africa。

埃博拉醫(yī)護(hù)人員：他們依舊戰(zhàn)斗在抗艾第一線。在西非，這場(chǎng)史上最大的埃博拉爆發(fā)至今已經(jīng)奪走了將近7000人的生命。

3、 Vladimir Putin,the Russian president who has remained in the headlines throughout this year,from his country’s stewardship of the Winter Olympics in Sochi to its annexation of Crimea, and its role in the ongoing civil strife in eastern Ukraine。

弗拉基米爾·普京：2014一整年，這位俄羅斯的總統(tǒng)一直在搶奪各大頭條，從索契奧運(yùn)會(huì)到吞并克里米亞，再到東烏克蘭的內(nèi)亂。

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4、 Taylor Swift, one of the world’s top-selling pop artists, who this year shook up the music industry by pulling her music from streaming service Spotify, which she believes should compensate artists more。

泰勒·斯威夫特：作為全球最火的流行歌手之一，斯威夫特毅然決然地將她的所有歌曲撤出音樂(lè)流服務(wù)Spotify，因?yàn)樗�認(rèn)為Spotify對(duì)于藝人太過(guò)吝嗇。

5、The Ferguson protesters, who took to the streets in August following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer, and again in November when a grand jury declined to indict the officer in the killing。

弗格森抗議者：八月，美國(guó)一名手無(wú)寸鐵的18歲黑人少年被白人警察槍殺，這次槍殺引起了無(wú)數(shù)人的抗議；而十一月，大陪審團(tuán)卻拒絕起訴這名白人警察，這一審判結(jié)果再次掀起了街頭抗議狂潮。

6、 Tim Cook, who introduced Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple Watch, and Apple Pay this year,and whose decision to come out made him the first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO。

蒂姆·庫(kù)克：今年，蒂姆·庫(kù)克發(fā)布了蘋(píng)果iPhone 6 、6 Plus、Apple Watch和Apple Pay，同時(shí)，他是世界500強(qiáng)CEO中第一個(gè)宣布出柜的。

7、 Masoud Barzani,the acting president of the Iraqi Kurdish Region since 2005, who has deftly threaded the region’s push for independence with the ongoing fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria。

馬蘇德·巴爾扎尼：自2005年以來(lái)，巴爾扎尼一直擔(dān)任伊拉克庫(kù)爾德地區(qū)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人，他巧妙地處理了本地區(qū)的獨(dú)立問(wèn)題以及和伊拉克伊斯蘭國(guó)、大敘利亞的沖突問(wèn)題。

8、 Roger Goodell, the National Football League commissioner whose leadership hasbeen under great scrutiny this year as the league dealt with public incidentsof domestic abuse by players such as Ray Rice,among other controversies。

羅杰·古德?tīng)枺?006年，羅杰·古德?tīng)枔?dān)任美式橄欖球聯(lián)盟(NFL)總裁，然而今年，這位聯(lián)盟的總裁的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)卻因Ray Rice等人家暴案的處理而飽受質(zhì)疑。

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